128024 20250403144231.0 doi 10.1007/s13209-023-00287-x sideral 135207 ART-2023-135207 eng Medrano-Adán, Luis (orcid)0000-0002-5181-929X Skill heterogeneity and market labour income inequality 2023 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Occupational choice models predict that, ceteris paribus, countries with higher dispersion of skill will have higher market labour income inequality. However, an extended conclusion from empirical research is that cross-country variations in dispersion of skill explain little of the variation in income inequality. This paper identifies factors related to production and organization technologies that moderate the relationship between dispersion of skill and dispersion of income in occupational choice equilibrium outcomes and that, if not properly accounted for, can bias the results of the empirical studies that explain dispersion of income as a function of dispersion of skill. In particular, comparing equilibrium outcomes from occupational choices in economies that differ in the distribution of skill and in the efficiency of supervision hierarchies, the paper can explain why the US and Sweden have similar labour productivity, but income inequality is higher in the US than in Sweden, and why productivity is lower and income inequality is higher in Spain than in Sweden. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S42-20R-CREVALOR info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2020-113338RB-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 1.7 2023 ECONOMICS 256 / 600 = 0.427 2023 Q2 T2 0.728 2023 Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) 2023 Q1 2.3 2023 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Salas-Fumás, Vicente Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-8405-1056 Sanchez-Asin, Javier (orcid)0000-0003-2945-9141 4012 650 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Direcc.Organiza.Empresas Área Organización de Empresas 15 (2023), 203–234 Series (Berlin) SERIES-JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION 1869-4187 597031 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/128024/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1168242 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/128024/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:128024 articulos driver 2025-04-03-14:39:53 ARTICLE